New York, New York

The Littles

At the Movies

Where am I?

With Lox

Back in the Day

100

Hoeveelheid Little Italys in New York City

Wat zijn twee?

100

Why are these two gangs fighting in the opening scene of gangs of New York?

What is ethnic and religious rivalries (anti-immigrant anti-Irish sentiment)?

100

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

What is Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island?

100

A bagel with cream cheese and lox is

What is a bagel with cream cheese and salmon?

100

The original name of New York City.

What is New Amsterdam?

What is Manahatta?

200

The most diverse place (county, borough, city) in terms of ethnicity and spoken languages in the world.

Wat is Queens?

200

How Vito Corleone gets his name in The Godfather Part II

What is that the customs officer hastily changed it to the name of the town where he came from?

200

What are cities approximately the population of these corresponding NYC boroughs? (*Paris within the ring, not quite as impressive, but still...)

200

A type of restaurant that is often open 24 hours, where you get unlimited refills of coffee, and you can order breakfast, lunch or dinner, anytime of day.

What is a diner?

200

Wall Street is the heart of the American financial industry. It takes its name from:

What is a wall to protect against Native American attacks?

300

Number of Chinatowns in New York City.

What are six to nine?

300

Where Carmen wants to be (in West Side Story)

What is in America?

300

Uptown, Downtown, Crosstown

What are north, south, east to west?

300

The for a ubiquitous business where New Yorkers go for beer, chips. batteries, flowers, a quick breakfast or lunch, subs, eggs on the grill, danish, coffee to go, basically whatever.

What is a bodega or a corner store?

300

Match the original Dutch name with the current name. Breuckelen.

What is Brooklyn?

400

Two "-est" facts about New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade

What is the oldest and biggest parade?

400

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.

What is That's Amore!

400

Which direction do the streets run?

What is crosstown = east/west?

400

First sold by German immigrants and popularized by Famous Nathan's of Coney Island.

What is the hot dog?

400

Boswijck

What is Bushwick?

500

The only majority Latino borough/county in New York and in the eastern part of the U.S.

What is the Bronx?

500

The store that the Miracle on 34th Street takes place.

What is Macy's?

500

Which direction do the avenues run?

What is north-south?

500

Two essential characteristics of New York pizza.

What is thin crust, and sold by the slice (or large pies to share)?

(Unless it's grandma style)

500

Early New York City mayor Peter Stuyvesant owned a farm. An important, current avenue and neighborhood take their name from this farm.

What is The Bowery?

600

This Ukrainian city is the nickname of a large Russian and Ukrainian community in Brooklyn.

What is Little Odessa? (Brighton Beach)

600

The 1983 documentary Style Wars depicts differing opinions about at least two new art forms in the city.

What are graffiti and rap music (also breakdancing battles)?

600

10th Avenue is __________ of 9th Avenue

What is west?

600

This mighty deli sandwich shares the same name of someone in this class (though spelled differently).

What is the Reuben Sandwich?

600

The Statue of Liberty became a symbol of American freedom and opportunity for immigrants. It inspired a famous poem with this verse, ""Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to...

What is "breathe free"?

700

The intellectual and artistic center of black culture in the United States in the 20th Century.

What is Harlem?

700

In Do the Right Thing, Mookie's friend Buggin-Out and Sal get into a disagreement in Sal's Pizzeria. The disagreement is about two things. Name one.

What is: there's not enough cheese on the slice?

What is: why aren't there any Black people on the pizza parlor's Wall of Fame?

700

You want to get from W. 40th Street btw 7th & 8th Avenues (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) to Central Park on 59th Street, you walk:

What is north? (The street numbers go up.)

700

Hot pretzels, knishes, Jamaican beef patties, hot dogs, churros, and chicken over rice share this aspect of New York cuisine.

What is they can all be purchased at a push cart?

700

The Brooklyn Bridge is younger/older than London Bridge.

What is older?

800

Neighborhood historically known for the birth of folk rock and bohemian poets, now home to celebrities.

What is Greenwich Village?

800

Travis Bickle, the anti-hero in Taxi Driver, decides to clean up the city on his own as a vigilante. He was inspired to this by driving through this New York City neighborhood.

What is Times Square?

800

You want to get from W. 40th Street btw 7th & 8th Avenues (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism) to the Empire State Building on 34th Street and 5th Avenue, you walk:

What is you walk south and east?

800

Younger New Yorkers born and raised will know this unique NY dish often called a "deconstructed hamburger". It was created by one worker in a bodega/corner store in Harlem, and is not (yet) widely known outside of New York City.

What is the chopped cheese?

800

A typical New York hobby (and word) is to sit on the ________ . Hint: Dutch heritage

What is stoop?

900

This scene from When Harry Met Sally takes place in a classic Jewish deli in this neighborhood.

What is the Lower East Side?

900

In the gritty 1970s crime drama The French Connection, Detective Popeye Doyle enjoys this New York City lunch while:

What is while watching a criminal enjoy a fancy meal?

900

The numbers stop at Houston Street. What is the name of the neighborhood south of Houston?

What is SoHo?

900

Name one of these popular New York baked goods that (may) contain chocolate. Two hints!

What is babka? What is black and white cookie? What is (chocolate) cheesecake?

900

This should be a famous address:

What is the origin of hip-hop?

1000

Neighborhood between downtown and uptown that was hit hard by remote work during and post-Covid.

What is Midtown?

1000

The documentary Paris is Burning is not about the city of Paris on fire.

What is about New York City ball culture and vogue-ing?

1000

An old indigenous trail from the southern tip of Manhattan and NY Harbor to Canada that diagonally crosses Manhattan's grid creating Times Square and other squares.

What is Broadway?